Since I let y'all use Ruby that day, and she found them, how much sausage do I get out of this?

I've caught skinned, quartered, and dropped off big barrs at the processor for you for the last couple years. The last one I delivered the sausage to your house! You think these will be any different?

Thanks Casey, with TShelly, I don't have any expectations. Married life has him consumed, he couldn't even bring the ribs to town or to my house when he returned Ruby!

Since I let y'all use Ruby that day, and she found them, how much sausage do I get out of this?

It's gonna be A McVey vs Vandoron hunt anyways might as wells save our cash go to church show up watch the weigh in

Y'all gonna be chasing just Cole now, I've retired from the tournaments, and hog hunting on the weekends in general, since I started cooking crawfish at my store in Huntsville. If any of you are ever in the Huntsville area, my store is at exit 112 on Interstate 45, and I boil crawfish Friday, Saturday and Sundays from 11am-6pm January through the end of June, and I still like hearing a good hunting story and talking about dogs. Because of my schedule, last year I gave all my young dogs to my friends and only kept a few older culls. Good luck to everyone that hunts this tournament, I always looked at it as the Super Bowl of hog hunting tournaments! I think it being on Easter weekend is really gonna hurt the turnout this year, but maybe that was what they hoped for, less competition for the prize money!

The dealership's mechanic told me to buy coil springs for full size Ranger and replace the ones I had on my 500. I ordered them online cheaper than getting from dealership, I used a press to help compress them when putting on the shock. It works great now.

I'm typing this to try and inform some of y'all of what is happening in everyone's hog hunting world right now! It is called Psuedo Rabies! This is different from the regular rabies, that we all give our dog a shot for yearly! There is not a shot for Psuedo Rabies! I'm not a veterinarian or a professional, but have been asking a lot of questions trying to learn about this and just wanted to share some information I have gathered, because this is serious! TWilbanks and his gang caught a boar Saturday night, and as of Monday evening, 48 hours later, 4 cur dogs and the cd have all died from it! One sick hog killed 5 dogs!

If your dog contracts the disease, it will die! The disease seems to attack their brain and make them go crazy!

I know personally of 10 dogs that have died in the last month from this disease here in Texas! It's not from just one geographical region either, the first I heard of was in Teague, Freestone County. Last week a friend was hunting between Huntsville and Trinity, Walker and Trinity Counties! This weekend it happened up in northeast Texas, near Dangerfield, in Morris County.

The hogs transferred the disease by simply cutting the dogs, not a severe cut by anyone's judgement, OR by the dogs catching/biting the hogs. So the disease is in the hogs blood and saliva.

The signs of the infected dogs start out with slobbering and really droopy bottom eye lids and then most dogs start severely scratching their skin around their head, eventually scratching through their skin. One dog started scratching behind its front shoulder until the hide was raw!

One of the dog owners in Teague got cut by the hog also, and he had to go through a round of 19 shots over a couple week period!

So if you have a dog mysteriously die a few days after catching hogs, or your dog starts showing these symptoms, be careful! It's not supposed to be able to transmit from dog to dog, according to the State man that came to Trinity, but if an infected hogs saliva can transmit it why can't an infected dogs saliva?

 I just wanted to try to spread the word so people have some knowledge of what is going on in the woods!

If there is a pink one, I want it!!!

This is the prime example as why you can't rely on a Garmin as your only tracking device! I run a radio collar(Wildlife) on all of my dogs in addition to a Garmin on all my dogs when they starting rolling out with these running hogs!

Clint congrats on that big Trinity County Barr!

Tony and I are getting ours mounted at Southern Wings Taxidermy in Huntsville!

I'm a dealer for Blackgold Dog food through my convenience store in Huntsville, TX. 5 of us locals buy 2-3 tons at a time, any of y'all can get in on it if you would like too. Just message me.

I took one of my gyps to the vet for a blood test for tick diseases, and I knew she had been shaking her head a lot and scratching at her ears so they checked and she did have ear mites, so he told me to put 1 cc ivomec in each ear and massage the ear to make sure it gets down in the canal before she starts shaking her head. He also said they spread from dog to dog easily so I'll probably have to treat all my other dogs. He also said that if I had been worming monthly with ivomec  like I was supposed to the dog would have enough in their system to be immune to the ear mites.

T-Bob they said 6', which was tall in those days! Trenton mouthy or not he gets it done!

I enjoy seeing old pictures, especially the ones of hunting. I saw JIMCO post of the old pictures so it made me go find mine.

This picture says on the back 1942, it is my great grandfather, Big Popa Rawlinson, and his sons, my great uncles, Bumper and Bobby. Big Popa, originally from Center, moved to Hardin County around Batson and then Liberty County at this point around Moss Hill and Hardin, Texas.

He was well known for making "primitive tracking systems,"or blowing horns! My Uncle Bobby still has his last one, it is a goat horn with a deer fore leg skin dried over it, because it had been run over by a car.

These Great Uncles tell stories about how he was with the guys that hunted and killed the last bears in the Big Thicket. I can show you in the Trinity River bottom just north of Liberty, what has been called the Bear Tree for four generations, because that is where they treed and killed the last sow and 2 cubs in Liberty County.

After that they fox and coon hunted at night with these same dogs, since there were no more bears and they would use these same dogs to work their woods hogs or cattle with in the day time! They said he would take his blowing horn outside after dark when he wanted to go hunting and blow it to see if any of the neighbors would answer back, and if they did they would meet up and go hunting that night.

So Trenton your Possum dogs are just throw backs to the old stock dogs!

I had 3 dogs come down with it about 10 years ago all from a hog, the gyp died and the two males, one got castrated and the other we treated once we figured out what was going on. Roscoe is the dog we didn't castrate, I wish I would have re-tested him later in life because I never tried to breed him because of it. He was hands down the most complete hog dog I've raised, so far!

It is a big deal!!!!

It is one of the three tick born diseases dogs can get! The other two are Lymes Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever! I've lost several dogs to these in the last five years. If untreated could be fatal. I had a gyp die 2 years ago that had Ehrlichia and R.M.S.F., and she died because I waited too long to take her to the Vet. I have not had a dog YET with just Ehrlichia, it is always been with RMSF.

Don't just blow it off, check with another Veterinarian. I will ask mine next week for you.
Where do you live and hunt mostly? I'm wondering if it's territorial?

Thanks guys, Mike, you and the coon hunters can have that night hunting! The last time I went night hunting a good friend lost a special gyp to a badass boar, and I got Goose wrecked! He looked like Frankenstein for a couple weeks!

I went hunting Saturday a week ago to one of my leases because the hogs have been rooting up the soybeans I planted for the deer. I took Zach and Chandler, 2 high school boys, with me since TShelly had to do a crossfit competition. Knowing it was gonna get hot fast I cast all of the dogs from the trailer. Dogs rolled on about .75 mile hunting then they bayed, and it broke. They ran him about a mile before they got him shut down in the neighbors lease 300 yards from our border, which is a big creek. I drive as close as I could on our side and can hear a battle going on, so the boys waded the chest deep creek and get over there, while I drive the buggy 6.5 miles around to where they have this big Bo hog tied. He had died after they tied him while they were waiting on me to get there . He was just to high strung, the cur dog strain was more than he could bear! Hauled him out to weigh him any way, 298lbs.


Dogs rolled and caught another red 100lb track star that lost his man hood!

This week, it rained Thursday so I planned to hunt Friday. Know one else could go because of having jobs or school, so I was gonna go by myself. My daughter, Lindsey, the college golfer, just got home for the summer from Ada, Oklahoma this week so she and my wife went. Ruby is in heat and saving Boogie for later in the day, I turn out the B team, Goose, Briar, Jett, Harley and 2 pups. They roll out hunting go about .8 so I drive that way, dogs are all split up and I hear one of the pups bay, Briar, Goose and Jett get there and they run down a little 50-60 Bo, then while I'm taking his manhood the dogs split. Goose and Jett leave out of the lease and are 1.8 miles South, Briar and pups go north, got to them and they are bayed. Lindsey and I lead cd in and a good Barr hog is backed up in narrow creek, he trashs the pups so I send cd and he and Briar catch, I get him flipped and she helps me tie him. 




We take him to the trailer track to Briar he's bayed again, go to him Harley is there and they making big loops around a bad youpon thicket, send cd and Briar doesn't help this time so cd is getting trashed I get him flipped and tied, it's another Barr! 


Load him, head towards truck Briar, Harley and Jett are near the road and have a 40-50lb sow caught in a pool in the creek!


Go to camp weigh they Barrs and they both weigh 285!


Had to go find Goose, he was coming back, he had a 6-8in cut on his shoulder, so he and Jett had caught a goodun without me. 
Those 4 hogs got us to 200 head of hogs, 15 of those were Barrs over 200, since January 1, 2013, and that's what we put our hands on and no telling how many more pigs they killed that we didn't go find!

Mike, now it's time to go fishing!

Reuben, his was the first litter I ever raised when I got started hunting. He was just straight cur dog from here in the Huntsville area. His damn was a red blackmouth that went back to Gerald Hightowers dogs, and his dad was 3/4 curr-1/4 blue plott out of some guys dogs from Willis and New Waverly, they all were that smokey-red. I still get an occasional blue out of this line.

Roscoe, my favorite that I've raised.

Good hunt, keep up the good work! I'm like Ben, nothing better than taking a boar's pride!

Ben we don't want to hear your whining about what you gotta do on the weekends!

Casey congratulations he is a big boy, and welcome to the true 400+lbs Club! We all hear about 400+ pound hogs, but most of those hogs are guessed weight and boy would they shrink quickly if actually put on scales!

Even Barr Haters would love to flip and tie his big ass! Well thinking about it, probably not, they wouldn't do anything but stick him or shoot him!